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Gives an initial overview of population change, differentiating between the 34 years to 1981—essentially the post-war “long boom” years–and the following three decades up to 2011. Outlines the rates of growth of central cities, minor towns and rural remainder population components relative to the Australian national growth rate. Demonstrates the increasing primacy of the central cities in the regions’ urban hierarchies, resulting from competition and sorting among the urban centres.
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Gibrat’s law states that if different cities grow randomly with the same expected growth rate and the same variance, the limit distribution of city sizes converges to Zipf’s law.
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Smailes, P.J., Griffin, T.L.C., Argent, N.M. (2019). Overview of Total Population Change, 1947–2011. In: Regional Cities and City Regions in Rural Australia. SpringerBriefs in Population Studies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1111-6_3
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